Teaching Similes

A number of funny picture books seem to have been written with the intention of teaching similes. here are some examples:

• My Dog is As Smelly As Dirty Socks by Hano Piven
• My Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil by Hano Piven
• Crazy Like a Fox by Loreen Leedy
• Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk by Brian P. Cleary
• Stubborn as a Mule
• "Quick as a Cricket" by Audrey Wood

Many of these books are shown on Mrs Warner's blog entry about similes.

Bruce Lansky has a post about how he taught similes to his students using a simile poem he wrote. The book is called "If Pigs Could Fly".

There is a really fascinating Mix-n-Math Similes and Metaphors lesson (or series of lessons?) by "Mrs M" about her students working on similes and metaphors to describe themselves.